JW Ep 12- Josh Wolf

I'm picking up good vibrations. I'm picking up good vibrations. Good good vibrations. Welcome back to Jeremiah Wonders everybody.

Hope you're feeling those good vibrations on Jeremiah Wonders radio today. Hope you guys had a good week. I had a splendid week. I did something this week that made me just feel really, really good.

I went skating skateboarding with a not roller skating. I went skateboarding. That sounds so like, I went skateboarding this weekend. But yeah, no, over the last week on Monday, just earlier in the week, I went skating with my buddy David Derry.

I haven't been out in a long time and it was just so much freaking fun. He's a great skater. Skated way longer than me and is way more skilled skater than I am. He was coaching me through some stuff and I had some freaking breakthroughs.

I've never dropped in before, which if you know anything about skateboarding, it's not really that big of a deal, but it's kind of scary if you don't skate very much. I always just did simple, flat stuff. I do some rail stuff, board slides and maybe 50-50s if it was a really good day or something like that, but nothing too crazy. But I've always enjoyed skating.

I just got into it late in life, in high school. If you get into something that late that's a sport, it's pretty hard. The learning curve is pretty difficult for you. But I went with my buddy, David Derry, too, in Cino at the skate park.

Through him pushing me and coaching me, you can do this all in your head. It's a mental obstacle. You can push through it. I dropped in and I rocked to Fakie, which is like, there's two things that I've been wanting to do for years.

I put this mental block myself. I kept thinking that I was going to get hurt or something like really bad. It was going to happen, but he encouraged me. It felt like a mental breakthrough.

It felt like after I did it, I felt like I was in the movie inception or something like that. Or the Matrix. I was like, oh, I can do anything I want. Literally anything I want if I put my mind to it.

It was like this positive adrenaline rush that was flowing through my body. I was like, it just put things into perspective like something I was really scared of for a long time. I finally conquered little bits of it. So I hope to go back and do more of that with different friends.

But it's just like a little thing that happened to me that I thought was super fun. So shout out to my friend David Derry for helping me out with that. I also did a super fun show at NERDML this week called the fictional roast and we roasted Disney villains. I was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.

Yes. It was super fun. Hopefully there will be some video of that soon. But they're shutting down another great comedy place in LA.

It was like one of the pinnacles of all comedy in the back of this comic book store called Meltdown. And they had these great shows that they did there every night and these really fun. I did like historical roast there, fictional roast with shout out to Eddie Firth and Sammy Junio and Ryan Pig who run that show. They're going to be doing other places which I highly recommend you check that show out.

But it's just sad whenever another comedy place, iOS and the NERDML within a couple months or each other. It's kind of crazy. One of my buddy, Ari Schneider's Jewish wedding. Yeah.

And I emphasize Jewish wedding because I think I like Jewish weddings more than just regular weddings. You get to see people up on chairs, people dancing in circles and just like this fun positive energy that's going around. I usually go like weddings, but I have a Jewish wedding. It's pretty fun.

It was a good time. I want to give a shout out to my sponsors for sure. Speedweed, LA Speedweed. Thank you, Geno.

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Hit up Geno at Speedweed. And then I have a special thing I want to do right now. I went to Joe's Pizza's Week in West Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard right next to the Comedy Store. And I told Joe that I would give him a little bit of airtime.

So I've always wanted to say this. And now a word from our sponsor. Hey guys, good morning. I'm ringing the LA.

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Joe from Joe's Pizza just did a freaking commercial for you on Jeremiah Wonders. I don't even consider it a commercial. I just consider it something cool to have the actual owner do like a local commercial on this podcast. It's freaking dope.

And if you noticed, he said something we welcome any competition. And there's some people that got mad at me on my Instagram because I was eating at a different pizza place this week in Santa Monica. And I was giving them a shout out because I'd never tried salad pizza before. Sounds like an oxymoron, actually really good over at a gray block.

But that guy owns that he actually owns a different pizza company in in Bend, Oregon called Bronx Born Pizza. And he said, you know what? I want to sponsor the show, but I don't want to be that guy who is stepping on his toes with pizza places in LA. I'm going to sponsor you through my shop in Bend, Oregon.

It's called Bronx Born Pizza. Check them out at Bronx Born Pizza on Instagram. And we have got some really cool stuff cooking up for the podcast. I'm going to make an announcement soon.

Hopefully on this next episode, but he's helping me a lot with some stuff. And I can't wait to share a pretty amazing story about how this sponsorship came to be. But check that out for now, especially if you're in the Oregon area. Kindness challenge.

I didn't want to talk about that. My kindness challenge, I've been if you haven't been listening to the podcast, I challenge you to do something nice for a stranger or a friend, somebody in need of anything. It could be really small. My kindness was such a small thing this week.

It like just to show you an example, it can literally be anything. There was a bathroom at this wedding that I just went to. And they work for tips a lot of times, right? And there was only like one or two dollars in the tip jar.

And it's very clear to me, I used to work jobs like that where I you put your own couple of the first couple of dollars in to get it started. You know what I mean? Like it's always your own money. And it was clear that it was just his money that he started to show people like, hey, I accept tips kind of thing.

And I put a $5 bill in there. Because the guy was nice. And I was like, you know what, I usually don't tip bathroom tenants. You just don't really have the money to be randomly tipping bathroom tenants and not that I go to many places with bathroom tenants.

You get the point though. It can be something little. And hopefully that led to more tips for him, which improved his day and his night and his week. So that's just a little, the little dumb thing that I did.

But there's a guy who tweeted at me. I love this. He said that there was a homeless guy that was like kind of down on his luck. He got him a slice of pizza.

Heck yeah, that's what I'm freaking talking about. Bringing people joy and especially with pizza. Heck yeah, dude. I appreciate you tweeting that at me.

I wanted to read this letter that is a really cool thing that this guy Jared, he said he didn't want me to say his last name. But he sent this letter to me to to to your boy, Jeremiah Watkins, a Gmail.com, which you can do the same. I'll read some other emails as the weeks come on. This one's a little bit longer.

But I wanted to read this in a voice, which I think is maybe what this guy sounds like. That's what I want to start doing with the letters is my take on what they possibly sound like. So this is like my imagination stirring right here. So I'm going to read you that letter right now.

Hey, Jeremiah, I wanted to share my story of grand kindness to strangers since you always express doing so on your podcast. I was in the process of finding a place for this approximately six plus months before it worked out in an odd way last month. As you know, I have a type of leukemia. Full name is Philadelphia, chromosome, positive chronic, melogenous leukemia or for short, PH plus email.

I was on one type of oral chemo for around four years. In that time, I managed to somehow accumulate a ton of the drug in its boxes, sealed, etc. Oh, and there was a year supply that I had left, but I was getting lots of side effects. So we switched to a different oral chemo drug.

The original drug was between $8,300 to $12,000 per month supply. My insurance amazingly covered it as they do for the new drug, which is $13,500 to $15,000 monthly. So I had all of this medication, which I wanted to get to someone who was in need and unable to pay nor had coverage, but my luck in the States was no good. Then I began thinking internationally.

Countries where treatment was maybe difficult to get, I thought of Venezuela. As soon as I did, I began getting messages from Venezuela, Aria Post on Instagram showing all the boxes of meds I had. I did all I could to make sure it wasn't just a scammer who's going to sell it on the black market that currently can't even get aspirin without violent gangs and high prices, which the dictator of Maduro made that way. So cancer patients can forget it.

So I'm able to see this guy's IG pages, family, etc. All appears good. We spoke for a while. It's for his mother who was on the drug 14 years before Maduro took power.

He showed me to her, prevent his whaling doctor's script in Spanish, but the written part was clear enough that I knew what it was for. So the point is that after I felt 100% confident they were legit, I met with a family member who was in LA and gave all 50 boxes to him. He has a friend in the Red Cross in Colombia, which is allowed to cross into Venezuela with meds. They brought the chemo to my guy and now they have a solid year supply of life saving medication, which can be stretched out if she takes a somewhat lower daily dose.

Even better is that I was first dealing with a girl also in Venezuela who needed the same medicine, but the language bearer made it very difficult to get it to her, plus I couldn't just ship a box full of meds to her. It would surely get snagged at customs. So it turns out these two live only 10 to 20 minutes from each other. So I asked the guy to do me one favor and return and to contact her and arrange something where he would give some of the boxes of meds to her.

And he did. The whole thing made me feel great about everything I did and that at least two people would live healthier and longer because of that medicine. So that's that. I felt you to enjoy my story of kindness.

Keep those podcasts coming. I really do love the Collins R hilarious and spend all great guests. Talk glasses great. See you soon.

Peace. Jared. How freaking cool is that? Man, what a story.

This guy sending his own medication that he can't use. He wants to send to a good cause he made it happen. Got it to somebody in another country technically pretty illegally, but it's going to help save their lives. And that's what I'm freaking talking about.

That's why I love this kindness challenge. It's so cool. And thank you guys for sending me stories like that. And tweet at me, you know, comment on Instagram, send me emails, do it all.

It's freaking cool. I'll read them on the podcast. I really enjoy it. Another thing that I want to do.

And this is a challenge for me. I want you guys to comment on Instagram or Twitter at Jeremiah stand up. Hit me up on that or email me at yourboygermywalkingsofgmail.com. Some impression and singing challenges.

If you want me to sing a cover of a song or do an impression of a celebrity, I want to I want to work on it. And I'm going to try to do them on the podcast at some point. I want to start integrating some interaction with some some celebrity impressions or characters that you would like to see pop up on the show. And they can be characters that you've already heard me do on kiltony and you want me to try to integrate them on to Jeremiah wonders.

We'll see what can happen organically. That would be fun though. I appreciate all the reviews as well guys. Thank you so much for reviewing on iTunes or the comments.

The five star ratings that does help if you haven't done yet. Hello, iTunes. Do it for me. And whatever platform you're listening to the podcast on.

I hope you're enjoying it. The ratings help a lot. So I appreciate it. And tell friend what you're listening to.

Heck yeah. Let's get through some upcoming show dates and we'll get right into this episode with Josh Wolf man. He he's another guest who dived right in and his sax talk is really cool on this one. It's a little special treat.

Nobody's quite done it like him yet, which I appreciate. Put a new spin on thing. I'll come to shows April five through seven. Kiltony is in Arizona.

That's right. April 10th. Stand up on the spot. Come seat at the comedy store every second Tuesday of the month.

Hit me up. That's my baby. That's my show. It's so much fun.

It's some of the best comics in the world doing material you've never seen before and they've never even done before on stage through your suggestion. So much fun. April 13th or 15th. I'm recording the Reagan and Watkins.

I was my boy Patty Reagan up in Ventura full band in the studio. It's going to happen. Can't wait to leak some singles your way. We're going to be doing some music videos and stuff for that coming up as well.

Super excited to share that with you guys. April 19th or 21st. I'm in Moon Tower in Austin, Texas. I'm there doing stand up on the spot.

I'm there doing the guy in the comedy channel. They're doing stand up shows. They're doing big J. Oakerson's crowd work show.

It's going to be a freaking blast. If you're in Austin, definitely get a pass to Moon Tower. Such an amazing festival. I love it.

April 22nd is a festival called Broke LA. The wave is headline show on April 22nd. Sunday right after I get back in time from Austin. And then April 27th or 28th with the Golden Pony.

Wise guys, Salt Lake City, Utah. Golden Pony and the Golden Goose. Together once again, I'll feature him for him. Those are always awesome shows come see us.

And then Josh Wolf mentions a show that he's about to start doing on Twitch. That's going to be on Tuesdays. So check that out. Check out Josh Wolf's Twitter and stuff like that.

And do it up guys. I appreciate all the love on this show. Thank you for all the positive feedback and email me or whatever with any guests that you're trying to get on the show. I've got some fun ideas for some guests coming up.

And without further ado, I would like to present to you my episode of Jeremiah Wonders with Josh Wolf. In that order. How come you post dated the check to 2022? You know, by that time, are you going to buy a to pay that's not crooked?

Well, okay. I just want to tell you, you've been wearing that one backwards. That's actually the back and the front is in the back. Yeah, that little thing that are called bangs.

I was supposed to be in front. Oh, Craig Glazer. Oh, man. Craig Glazer.

Comedy King. Comedy King, King of Sting of Kansas City. That was for those of you because most people probably don't know his voice. I have no idea.

Oh, yeah. But that's spot on. Like I can do two impersonations. I can do a drippy dog and I can do my neighbor Jeff, but nobody knows Jeff.

But I just use the take for granted. I would like to know what Jeff sounds like. Oh, it's Jeff. Wait.

I think he's gone into the show actually. Oh, what kind of music is he playing? I can't really get sick. They can hear it.

And it's really distracting up from their homework and their sleep. Okay. I can tell Josh to try to maybe turn it down. Also, sometimes he comes home late at night and he's playing his music loud.

I think my kids can hear that too. I'm sorry. Sounds like you're living next to a real rebel. It's not really that easy as fuck and I keep my window open and I wait for him to make some noise so I can call him and go stop my lonai.

Well, at least you're really honest and straightforward with your personality course. That's, you know, somebody being that honest, like just laying it out on the line like that, you know? Yeah. He is legitimately like I'll be in my backyard.

I mean, you know, I do these things in my backyard called high lives. Yeah. I just get high and I get on my Facebook fan page and I go live and I just I'm just high and I'm talking to people and you know, wait, what's the premise though? Exactly.

I'm not. It's pretty simple. Okay. Okay.

So and by the way, and the fence in my backyard is like the 405 for animals for whatever reason that is the critter express. Kind of animals are redocking your Josh. I would like to know. Awesome.

Okay. Raccoon. Okay. Squirrel.

Okay. One cat who seems intent on catching all three of these animals and a an animal that I am not going to go ahead and say what it is yet because it was bigger than a cat and I would think bigger than a raccoon. But pretty sure dogs aren't walking on the top of fences might be a badger in Cino. You know that guy who you know that guy that one dude in the name everybody's nice neighborhood has one dude who has like four animals.

You shouldn't have. Oh, there's always like I was like one exotic animal that's like how did you get that here? Yeah. And you're like, you know, he said to a little wife, have you seen the badger?

What the badger? I think the I think the badger got out like, yeah, but that's why in Florida, like when people say I found a 74 foot python under my house. Yeah. Like somebody's bringing these into these different cities and then they just decided to want it.

I think it is kind of a high maintenance pet. But here's what's crazy. I have to have to feed the snake goats and stuff. Yeah.

Right. When it gets big enough that people's brain like, well, I don't want anymore. So I guess I'll just let it out in the wild where people live. It's the stupidest killer.

Do you ever think like whenever you see like, you know, like bokems or not bokems or like pythons like swallow, like, like animals or people like just as a man, like if you're thought like, I could freakin break through that like once you're inside, you'll be like, I have that dream with just like, I have a knife on me. I'm just gonna cut it open from the inside and just like crawl out and be like, total ant man it just like, I listen, there as a man, there are tons of situations where you're like, man, if some dude came to mind, do you know what we'll have a, you know what we'll do, bro, that dude will get a left and you know, like, and honestly, have you ever seen yourself fight? No, I would, I mean, I haven't really fought ever. So yeah, there's how you think you look.

Oh, there's how you think you look. And the rock music is playing behind you. Then you're like fucking throwing jazz. And then there's I will tell you that confidently, I'll tell you my fight record is like four and eight, five and nine, five and seven, because one time I was on the winning team, but I lost.

But now are you usually the one to initiate these or do you have a quick temper? You got kind of got a quick temper. Neither. I just find myself in these situations when I was younger.

Right? Okay. So when I used to drink, I don't really drink anymore. I'm just a weird guy.

And you know, I grew up with three older brothers. So I don't have a really good idea of when I should stop talking. Right? And not only that.

So is there a guy usually that would interact with you like, this guy needs a shut up and you're like, I got out of the, okay, so I'm going to tell you a great story. I think the dude who beat me up actually might be on the phone. Is he? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I see this coming up on the call already. Hello. Thanks for calling into Jeremiah wonders. Pretty good.

I was just talking to, I think you know, I'm Joshua that you got to fight with him a while back. Yeah. Oh boy, didn't put him much of a fight. You know what I mean?

What did you do to him? Well, he was making fun of me at bar. I didn't like too much and I wasn't smart enough to say anything back to him because that's not my strength. My smarts.

And so he made fun of me one time and my girlfriend laughed in my face. Do you remember what Josh said to you that they kind of triggered that where your girlfriend is laughing in her face? Yeah, I had he mentioned something about how tight my jeans were and that they still couldn't see my dick and was wondering if I had tucked it or just not brought it with me that night. I mean, that's a very specific observation from Josh.

Well, he was sitting right across from me and I said something about suck my dick and he had said, listen, I wouldn't offer that to people if it's not visible from this situation. Now, so you initiated the suck my dick initiation. Well, he had said something to me again that had made me angry and suck my dick was the only thing that I could think of because it seems like a really smart guy. Well, most of my brain is in my hands.

My hands know what to do. I've heard that some people are born with that. Yeah, I got brain hands. My hands generally know what to do.

My head does not. Right. It follows suit, right? Yeah.

My hands don't wear suits. So I don't know if you see that seems weird to have little hands suits. It ties on your hands, Jeremiah. You know, sometimes I'll tie a string just to remember something like, you know, like in it's a wonderful life.

The guy who's the the bank teller at that. I'm not familiar with that. Oh, it's a classic American film that I used to watch over here. But anyway, I've seen it.

Jimmy Stewart. I don't know. Is that the race car driver? We're getting warmer.

Oh, the race car driver. Jimmy Stewart. Yeah. He does have a wonderful life.

Yeah. So we were in a bar and I basically told him that it was time for him to step outside and take his woman like a man. Now was he eager or was this whenever he kind of recoiled back a little bit? He tried to joke his way out of it.

He seems like a funny comedian kind of guy. Yeah, neither. He didn't seem eager to fight. But he also seemed like the kind of guy that had just was unwilling to back down.

Did he have any friends with him? He was kind of showing off. He had four friends with him who stood off to the side. Oh, so they didn't do anything.

They did not. Oh, it sounds like he had a good group of friends with me who were all larger than everybody in his group. Oh, so you guys were ready to square off. We weren't scared.

And apparently his friends were. And so what? He took a swing. Oh, and I wasn't ready.

And he'd be running the job. And now how did you react to that? Well, my head turned for a second. But I didn't budge and my feet didn't move.

And I turned back to him and I said, son, you're gonna have to do better than that. And now how scared was Josh? I don't believe I've seen fear on someone's face like that for. He clearly knew that there is no chance for him moving forward in this particular and then my brain's to go over.

You know, your hand breaks to go over because they know what to do. Right. And I proceeded to give him a woman, but I never really let him hit the ground. I kept picking him up and talking to him.

Oh, yeah. You remember any of the things that you were saying as you just doesn't remember many of them. So I can only do you remember? Yeah, I think I said, you ought to be careful about who you pick fights with because sometimes you're gonna end up like this.

Oh, you can't fall down yet. I'm not done talking to you. So very much like you were telling like a story inside of a screenplay as you were punching it. Yeah, it was might as well said, enter interior exterior bar.

Josh's face hits the ground. Yeah, it was a it was a it was an asking. It was an asking. But my problem is, man, is that I not only have three other brothers, so I enjoy the verbal.

Yeah, the jousting the back of our of course, that's part of the fun. But I'm also because I have three other brothers, I'm just not good at saying, okay, I'm gonna walk away. If someone says you're pussy, not anymore. I'm a grown up now.

But back then I was still kind of in it. And if someone says you're pussy, then I just gotta be like, what are you gonna fly? Yeah, that's right. Nobody calls me chicken.

Who did a better? I haven't hit puberty yet voice. Michael J Fox or Kirk Cameron? Oh, that's really good question.

Kirk Cameron's he kept pretty consistent for that entire show. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, I'm just not gonna hear that pretty good. But Michael J Fox, I feel like you use the moments.

Yeah, don't you think so? Yeah. Cameron was more consistent and he did it all of the time. He also, well, he also had to do it, you know, if we're looking at the length of a film, but over seasons of television too.

So do you ever, as somebody who does voices, do you ever watch cartoons or even things like Seinfeld with guys like Kramer or George and see how throughout their seasons, the character changes, whether their voice or their mannerisms, just a little bit like early season Kramer as opposed to fourth season Kramer is a different person. Very different. I've noticed that in sitcoms for quite a while. Why do you feel that is when you're making up a character, right?

Why does it seem to even out a little bit and not be as extreme as the time goes on? Well, I think it'd be one or two things because sometimes you'll see in sitcoms, the characters become more extreme. And that's one of where I feel like they're playing to the audience where they're like, they didn't really know what exactly the character was, but they're finding what works with the audience and the viewers. So they'll start hitting those notes a little bit harder as the seasons progress.

But I think for most part, it's like coming up with characters and stuff like that. You're just kind of figuring out like which things that you want to continue to do with it and how to expand it. So you might start off a little bit too hot and you're like, oh, I need to ground this a little bit more. Or you'll heighten it a little bit later as maybe as seasons progress.

So maybe sometimes with guys like Kramer, he auditions or however, and he looks at the log line and goes, this dude is bing at 10 all the time. And then as the season goes, he was like, he needs a little humanity. Well, you need more depth as well because, you know, people don't gravitate towards these one dimensional characters because that becomes a one note thing. That's the difference between seeing like a character on Saturday Night Live that you only see one time versus somebody that they can bring back.

It's a little bit more of a three dimensional character that people kind of feel like they know maybe or there's nuances in the character that people are like, I believe that that could be a real person or I know somebody like that. Well, when you make characters, how do you decide if you go, oh, this dude's gonna stick around? Is there a sign for you even before you show it to an audience where you're like, I like this guy, I'm gonna work him for a little while. Yeah, there's definitely like thing, there's definitely times where I'll do I'll be excited to do a character and before I've even gone out to do it, like, and I'll be like, I think this is gonna, there's something there with this one.

And then it's usually like we do, uh, Kill Tony every Monday, which you've done multiple times. Uh, on that show, we do new characters every single week. So some we do once and never again, which is, and then there's some though that are, we've started to have recurring characters on the show where we're like, we're gonna bring back those guys or those girls or, and some of it be what you like or some of it just like the audience is like, some of it is, is, is, um, is what I like, but, uh, there's a handful that surprise me that people will tweet at me or post on Instagram. Like I did one recently, uh, called Cat burglar that, uh, we did, we were four cat burglar that came on the show.

But after everything this guy said, he's just like, Cat burglar. And you never know why. And I don't, yeah, like, you don't know why certain things work, but like no matter what, if I bombed with a joke or whatever, like this guy would just be like, like excited to be there and he'd be like, you know what's funny is that I tell a story and it is a 17 minute story. And there's part of this, it's, it's about going to old cella couple years back and how I, when I was there, there was a woman in her mid 60s with her husband, mid 60s old cella.

It's Coachella for old people. Right, right. Yeah. I just want to clarify.

It was old cella. Yeah. It was the who, the stones, McCartney, young Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, on the side. Yeah, it's great.

Oh, yeah. I don't know what I was, I took, I took my eyes. I was just curious which, which, which artists perform there that year, the oldest. I think Bob Dylan is the oldest living person who's still singing into a microphone.

I'm not talking about it. But so I'm there and there was a woman who, and I was told the story a couple times and this woman next to me was scratching her husband's back for the entire show, the first night, two and a half hours. So the first time I told the story, I didn't, I started talking about this woman next to us who scratches dudes back for two and a half hours. And I just made this noise with a scratching.

How would you describe that? Scratching. Yeah. Just to make it look like she was scratching his back.

But I do it on stage. I mimic it. Right. But I make the noise.

Shh. Okay. So I do it once. And it gets a giggle.

But I know that I'm going to be referencing her scratching the entire time. Right. So I don't just want to do this. I want to give it a noise.

You know, it ends up being as I do it throughout the story, it builds in every time it gets a bigger laugh. Yeah. And it's one of those comedy things where you're like, I have no idea why they're laughing. Isn't that because when you find those things, you're like, I don't even know why this is a joke.

But they're laughing. I don't know if it's the specific spot in the story. I don't know if it's the noise. Like you never really know with things like that.

And like, you don't know why the cat back there at the end works. But for it's a happy accident, you find it and you're like, no, I'm in, which is why, man, like I'm so envious and also I have so much respect for what you do because there's no way to be successful in this town unless you take risks and have balls. There's zero chance. And you have to fail.

You have to be able to put something out there and have nobody laugh and go, okay. And instead of shrinking into your shell, you have to use it as a learning experience and be like, all right, well, that doesn't work. So I'm going to try this one. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's definitely.

Well, do you have a think skin? You have to have a think skin for that. Not everybody can do that. No, I I've done many, many, many act outs over the years where I'm like, that I'm doing jazz and everything.

Oh, you know 100%. It's going to work. I'm like, this is funny, man. And you can't wait to get to the end.

You get to the end and it's like, crickets, you're like, I don't what the fuck just happened. Yeah. And I'm just like, I guess I'm okay. Well, you didn't like that one.

And how about this? That's my mentality. Oh, you didn't like that? Okay, I got some other stuff, but how long did it take you to grow the skin man because that's not it.

That's you have to develop that skin. Yeah. Well, I have a weird shot. I the only way I can describe it is I have this weird shut off valve in my brain that whenever I am committing to something, I know that it's funny.

Maybe it's not fully formed yet. Yeah. And maybe it's not there yet. But I know inherently there's something funny about that.

So I'm going to see it through. And if it gets nothing, then I have to reanalyze and be like, okay, I'm either not setting it up right. I'm not executing something right or it might just need some editing. Like it's usually one of those three things.

But you go all in on everything. Yeah. And I will tell you this. And I'm sure you can think of some people too.

You know, I can think of a couple comics where I watch and I can watch their whole set and be like half those laughs. They got uncomfortable. They got uncomfortable. Yeah, that's an interesting thing, which I'll see some comics.

And that's not a negative, by the way. But that's part of being a comic. Like people want to laugh at somebody who's telling them, Hey, this is funny. Right.

And that confidence carries you along with helps. The only thing that's bad about it is everyone's well, you know, we'll see comics around that have the confidence but not the jokes. And then you're just a comedian that just cringing so hard. You're like, this guy's getting laughs over like this garbage that's being spewed on stage.

So crazy. I always hope that like whenever I analyze like, all right, let's make sure that there's so quality in this bit before I keep pounding it over and over until you know you get that diamond. Yeah, it's literally like charcoal's in the diamond like finding those bits like, you know, that's how I do stories, man. That's how I do stories is I take a, I'm sure you tell the really long version first.

I tell every detail because for me, you don't know what's going to trigger the little last year there or they could take you down certain roads. And for me, the truth is always funny. So yeah, like the people can tell that it's based on a reality that it's true and then you just haven't been hiding it. People love that.

I have a video online right now that just got posted last week or something crazy like that. It's a joke I've been telling for years. I don't even tell it on stage anymore. It's about an hour and a half or two hours past material wise on that.

And all these comments put it on their Facebook page. It's got seven million views. Whoa, congrats. It's amazing.

But I don't know where it's a store and I've always been scared to put my stories up because mine are 10 to 15 minute long stories and I would be like, are people going to do stay in it. Nobody watches. Yeah. But it's some of the comments and I try not to read any comments.

But some of them are like, I like the store. You can tell it happened. Like that stuff is important to people. It's important to people.

Now on the other hand, there's Kevin Hart who just tells the most ridiculous show, but he tells the most confidence in the world and you're like, I'm fucking right. It doesn't matter. I'm on board. Right.

I'm on board for this. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, man, I find for me, storytelling is easy because at the end of the day, even if it's not funny, if the story is compelling, at least I didn't bomb interesting, right? See the way that's interesting that you say that because I don't I have some bits that are more story like, but I don't tell many like longer stories in the act because to me, it's almost the opposite where I feel like this is a weird mentality to think where if I bomb with a personal story, I'm like, no, they're like, I like this funny.

I'm like, whatever I create a bitter character, I'm like, oh, they don't like that character. That's not me. Isn't that a weird way of. I would tell you this two things to that one, your characters, though, when you commit 100%, I think it's the same thing when people listen to a story that may not be fully formed.

They're like, it's not fully formed, but that's an entertaining story. Okay, there may not be a ton of jokes with that character yet, but he's all in. That's a good character. You know, I mean, people are still entertained by what you're doing.

Yeah. Now I will, I forgot what I was going to say because I was high. Not high because I smoked some sweet and my memory is really bad. We were talking about the, yeah, I'm done.

That's quickly that happens. Usually I carry like a notepad with me. You're talking about the all things how they upload the story and that's gone. Yeah.

All right. I think we're gonna call her right now. Oh, wait, Josh's former idea. Are you calling on the show right now?

Wait, I'm talking to the inside of Josh's mind. Right now? What's going on in there? That is just me right now.

Are you seem really scared? Like it's a hostage situation. My ear, a lot of sounds. No, Josh's idea is are you getting any other things forming around?

Do you see anything happening? Is that pretty dark in there? Or is it radio silence in there? I see.

Okay. Wait, wait, I kind of want to hear from that other idea. Oh, hear from him anymore, baby. Oh, okay.

Who is the sassy idea that's coming over? This is the, this is who would charge up here. Oh, you have a, wow, it's interesting that I just say if it's a man or what. All that I know is that it's a sassy black gay man or woman who runs Josh Wolf's mind.

I think ball with the parents. I just meet in a flower shirt, but still could be man or woman, baby. I'm not sure. Now what now this idea?

What were you? What are you about? What can you tell me about yourself? I can tell you that I'm about disruption.

And generally when there is another idea in here, I like to push it down. Oh, I can be the only idea, man. Okay. So what do you want to say?

You have the phone? I don't say anything. I just fuck up everybody else. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't say anything. I'm just the one who pushes the other shit down.

Okay. I swear in the week. So you're the guy that takes whenever a conversation is smoothly going along, you just like to do real it. Yeah, I stick my foot right in that ass.

That's how I feel sometimes. I have my memory is like, and so I can feel something coming up and then it's like something swings around from back my head and goes, dude, we did that episode of a dog loves movies together. I was so ridiculously high. And this is on stage, to make a picture for listeners, we are on stage in front of a sold out theater.

That was fucking, I might have been higher than almost I've never been in my life. I've never seen you that high before. It was pretty, it was pretty entertaining to watch because you were, there was 12 guests for this Christmas episode and Josh was in front of me and I was behind him. I was just like looking at him, bro, the show and I'm like, he is so gone.

I, and the first question I got wrong on purpose. Oh, to get out of there because we already been there for like two hours before the questions came around. And then I told my wife, I'm like, Oh, I'm not, this is, I'm not gonna last. I hope this game is all I got out the first round.

I mean, you know, it was too, it was too, but I tell you, you're Michael Kane. It really crushed my, I dug, set it up so perfectly because he did a not good Michael Kane. Yeah. And it was a chance for me to just come in and they were talking about the dark night and everything.

I was like, Oh my goodness, I like, I already, I already talked about that in my act a little bit. Like that's one of the impressions I do in my act. What's your three best impressions? The ones you're most confident.

Oh, I'm gonna ask you two separate questions. What voice do you feel most comfortable improving with? And is that different than your best voice? That is, I think so.

Well, that's kind of hard to say. There's certain impressions that you don't have down yet as like whenever you're getting the voices down that much where it's harder to improvise with it because you're still worried about what you sound like? Yeah, because whenever you're, it takes you out of it, when it's one of those things like whenever you start thinking about like, well, you know, when you're on stage and let's say you're showcasing for some people or whatever, and you start thinking about that certain people are in the room or you start thinking about how the set is going, you're done. As soon as you start thinking about that stuff, you're out of it because you're not 100% dialed in.

That's kind of how it is with an impression. Like if you don't have just the bare bones of the voice and down and your point of view, if you don't have the point of view of the character down, then it's harder to improvise because you don't have, you're not on a steady base to like keep going. Right. Okay.

And so who, what would your voice be? The one? Well, okay. The one that I get the most, the people that people are like, that is like, I'm listening to it as some of my singing impressions, because like I do a Kings of Leon in my act and after weeks after shows, people say, I cannot think of you when I hear that song.

That's so I do songs in my act and I do, I do, you know, it's funny when I bring my guitar on stage, dude, I can see people's faces. Oh, this fucking guy with that guy. You know what I mean? It has that bad connotation to it.

Yeah, a little bit. So from years of the 90s of people shoving it down, people's throats. So I do 45, 50 minutes of standup first. Yeah.

Don't touch like a guitar. Yeah. But then I do some parodies. And I, the same way as you, people will be like, just heard that song, but I can only hear you talking about, you know, that dude with a small tick or whatever it is.

Right. And I love that. Oh, it's great. It's great.

Yeah. I mean, my ideology with comedy has always been, it doesn't have to like, maybe, maybe I won't be the funniest comic that you saw on the line up tonight. Maybe not to remember me. Yes.

But I will hopefully be the most memorable. That is what I care about, because you see people here at any of the clubs around Los Angeles, anywhere in the US, where they'll see a handful of comics and they'll be like, that guy was so funny. And then you say, what did they talk about? And they go, well, you know, you did that thing up.

Well, he did that thing that they cannot tell you, they cannot tell you any of the substance or anything within their act. They just killed for 15 or 20 minutes. And it's just like, you know, it's just like laugh receptors going off in their brain, like just like, like pleasure going off where it's almost like using a vibrator or something like that where it's like, okay, well, that's not the real thing. Yeah.

I don't know. No, I agree with you, man. I would much rather be memorable than just destroy all the time. And then people just be like, yeah, that guy's funny.

But I don't really remember like his bits, you know. I'm fine. And I'm not going to say his name, but he goes on the road and clubs will tell me, man, he crushes, but he cannot sell a ticket. And I it's because of that.

I've said to them, believe it said, I agree. I've said to them, what's your favorite joke? And they're like, I don't I can't pinpoint. And one guy was like, I see the guy who tells that joke about him, like, no, no, no, yeah, see, yeah, no, I agree.

Like, it's why I tell stories. Well, also, because people can really relate to stories too. I'm also not a great, if I'm being honest with you, I'm not a great joke writer, straight jokes. I took a job once writing on Are You Smarter the Fifth Grader when it was in syndication for two reasons.

One, I knew that I had to write because we shot four or five shows a day. I had to write a joke for every question, which means I had to write 30 to 50 jokes about math. Oh, my God, you have all questions. Yeah.

So anytime Foxworthy had a question, I had to be able to write a joke about that question. And I took the job for two reasons, not because I was one, I wanted to get better writing jokes. But two, I just told my manager, I'm like, Hey, I'll take the gig. They said you want more money?

I said, no, just tell Foxworthy. He used to talk to me about comedy for half an hour a day. Or else I'm not doing the gig. Whoa.

And he was like, you'd rather have that than the money? Yeah, that money's not going to change my life. But this dude is one of the greatest comics of all time. That's a cool.

And they did it. Well, look, I knew 100% I knew Foxworthy a little bit, not good enough to ask him this question, but I knew him a little bit. I had open forum before. And so they were like, this is what Josh wants.

He was like, yeah, and he was like, all right. That's cool. He was like, man, why did you take this over money? I'm like, because I'm going to learn more from you than that extra $1000 a week can do for me.

I think we're getting a phone card. Is it Wow, Jeff Foxworthy is calling in or no? How you doing, man? I'm good.

Things not going well. I'm not hosting. Are you smarter than a fifth grader anymore? Well, that's true.